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Sanna Svedestedt

Jeweller  /  MunichSchmuckFair2026
Published: 26.02.2026

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6 new pieces have been added to the artist's profile.

Bio

Sanna Svedestedt is an art jeweller and leather craft artist based in Jämtland, Sweden. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Jewellery Art from HDK-Valand Academy of Art and Design (2009). Working primarily with naturally tanned leather, she experiments with and reinterprets historical leather techniques through a contemporary jewellery practice. In 2025, she founded Galleri Smedjan in Östersund, a platform for contemporary jewellery and craft in northern Sweden.

Statement

My main material is naturally tanned leather and I experiment with wet molding, Cuir Bouilli and embossing to sculpt and harden soft skin. To me, leather is a powerful material charged with associations to life, death, and our transience. To wear the skin of another being on one’s body is, at its core, an absurd act. I explore the tension between this absurdity and a playful visual language to reflect on fragility, loss, and transformation.
 

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2026:
Fair  04 Mar 2026 - 08 Mar 2026  SCHMUCK München 2026.
Exhibition  17 Jan 2026 - 31 Jan 2026  The Stockholm January Accords.
2025:
Exhibition  18 Nov 2025 - 25 Nov 2025  Stories from Sweden: Swedish Art Jewelry.
The Swedish residence during New York City Jewelry Week 2025, New York, USA.
Exhibition  12 Mar 2025 - 15 Mar 2025  Shining Despair.
Award giving  12 Mar 2025 - 12 Mar 2025  Amberif Design Award Winners 2025.
2022:
Exhibition  22 Jan 2022 - 12 Mar 2022  Rings ! at Houston.
2021:
Exhibition  05 Jun 2021 - 17 Jul 2021  Rings !.
2020:
Exhibition  04 Dec 2020 - 23 Dec 2020  Zoom Jewellery Exhibition.
Exhibition  30 Sep 2020 - 15 Dec 2020  METALLOphone: Museum.
2019:
Exhibition  01 Dec 2019 - 31 Dec 2019  Christmas Exhibition 2019.
2018:
Exhibition  20 Oct 2018 - 27 Oct 2018  Apple of My Eye.
Award  25 Aug 2018 - 07 Oct 2018  Cominelli Foundation Award 2018.
Exhibition  17 Feb 2018 - 18 May 2018  The European Triennial for Contemporary Jewellery 2017 in Sweden.
2017:
Exhibition  28 Oct 2017 - 04 Feb 2018  The European Triennial for Contemporary Jewellery 2017.
Exhibition  12 Apr 2017 - 06 May 2017  Fragments.
Exhibition  29 Jan 2017 - 12 Mar 2017  Belgian & Swedes.
2016:
Lectures  29 Sep 2016 - 01 Oct 2016  Lectures at JOYA 2016.
Exhibition  02 Sep 2016 - 01 Oct 2016  Swedes and Belgian Blues.
Exhibition  12 Mar 2016 - 20 Mar 2016  21st century jewels at Hallwylska Palatset.
2015:
Award  29 Aug 2015 - 04 Oct 2015  Cominelli Foundation Award 2015.
Exhibition  18 Aug 2015 - 18 Sep 2015  As duas faces de Sofia Björkman.
Exhibition  05 Mar 2015 - 18 Apr 2015  From the Coolest Corner: Nordic Jewellery.
2014:
Exhibition  30 Aug 2014 - 05 Oct 2014  Cominelli Foundation Award for Contemporary Jewellery Exhibition.
Award  30 Aug 2014 - 05 Oct 2014  Cominelli Foundation Award 2014.
Exhibition  10 May 2014 - 09 Nov 2014  New Adventures in Jewellery.
2013:
Exhibition  14 Nov 2013 - 07 Dec 2013  Contemporary Swedish Art Jewellery.
Exhibition  28 Jun 2013 - 15 Sep 2013  From the Coolest Corner.
Open call  26 Jun 2013 - 30 Jun 2013  Open Call: Play for Display.
Exhibition  22 Jun 2013 - 11 Aug 2013  Sanna Svedestedt: Void.
Exhibition  07 Mar 2013 - 10 Mar 2013  ignoble.
Fair  06 Mar 2013 - 12 Mar 2013  Schmuck 2013.
Meeting  14 Jan 2013 - 18 Jan 2013  From the Coolest Corner.
2012:
Exhibition  02 Oct 2012 - 09 Dec 2012  ALLA.
Exhibition  01 Sep 2012 - 03 Oct 2012  Cominelli Foundation's: Permanent Collection.
Exhibition  15 Jun 2012 - 27 Jul 2012  10 Years kunst.wirt.schaft.
Exhibition  05 Jun 2012 - 07 Jul 2012  Just Rings #1.
Exhibition  06 May 2012 - 30 Sep 2012  We Make Our Own in Sliperiet's Collection 2012.
Exhibition  15 Mar 2012 - 18 Mar 2012  In the Forest.
Exhibition  14 Mar 2012 - 16 Mar 2012  Fremde Federn - Borrowed Feathers in Munich.
Fair  14 Mar 2012 - 20 Mar 2012  Schmuck 2012.
Exhibition  27 Jan 2012 - 10 Mar 2012  Fremde Federn - Borrowed Feathers.
2011:
Exhibition  24 Nov 2011 - 13 Jan 2012  fremde federn - borrowed feathers.
Exhibition  27 Oct 2011 - 30 Oct 2011  A Pieceful Swedish Smörgåsbord, episode II.
Award  10 Sep 2011 - 02 Oct 2011  Cominelli Foundation Award 2011.
Exhibition  03 Sep 2011 - 18 Sep 2011  Four: One of a Kind.
Exhibition  30 Apr 2011 - 09 Jun 2011  Verket.
Exhibition  17 Mar 2011 - 20 Mar 2011  A Pieceful Swedish Smörgåsbord.
2010:
Exhibition  21 Sep 2010 - 21 Nov 2010  Contemporary arts and crafts exhibition.
Exhibition  04 Sep 2010 - 05 Sep 2010  Four Opening.
Exhibition  03 Mar 2010 - 09 Mar 2010  Sanna and Karin: Memories from Schmuck 2010.
Fair  03 Mar 2010 - 09 Mar 2010  Schmuck 2010.

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Book:  Showcase 500 Rings. New Directions in Art Jewelry. Metcalf, Bruce; Le Van, MartheLark Books:  Asheville,  2023
Article:  Review of the Stockholm Art Jewellery Spring 2016. Borgegård, Saraklimt02:  Stockholm,  2016
Interview:  In conversation with Marianne Schliwinski - beyond the wall of books. Svedestedt, SannaKlimt02:  Gothenburg,  2015
Interview:  Marc Monzó, Golden Prototypes. Sanna SvedestedtKlimt02:  Gothenburg,  2015
Interview:  Karin Johansson - Soundtracks and the Abstractions of a City.. Sanna SvedestedtKlimt02:  Gothenburg,  2015
Book:  Contemporary Swedish Art Jewellery. Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing:  Stockholm,  2013
Book:  Push Jewellery. Lark Books:  2012
Catalogue:  Cominelli Foundation Award. Cominelli Foundation:  2011
Book:  Schmuck 2010. GHM Gessellschaft für Handwerkmessen mbH:  Munich,  2010
Catalogue:  Contemporary arts and crafts exhibition. 2010
Catalogue:  Konstslöjdsalong. 2010
Book:  From the Coolest Corner. Nordic Jewellery. den Besten, Liesbeth; Veiteberg, Jorunn; Jönsson, Love; Ruutiainen, PäiviArnoldsche Art Publishers:  Stuttgart, 
Book:  Humor in Craft. Martin, BrigitteSchiffer Publishing, Ltd:  Pennsylvania,